Authorization pop up can not be satified or dismissed
I first found this duringFedora Rawhide (F30) testing and the issue is still present in the released Fedora 30. This issue continues in Rawhide (F31) to drop 0722.
I filed a Redhat bug report #1694782 of the same title as above. I have copied the bug report below:
Description of problem: Authorization pop up can not be satisfied or dismissed
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.32.1-1.fc30
How reproducible: 100%
Steps to Reproduce:
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On a clean bare metal install of F30 Workstation, After the initial Gnome first boot set up of a user name and password. Reboot the system an note the the user name and password that were set up work as expected.
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Remove the user's password with: sodo passwd -d
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Give the prior user password to root with sudo passwd
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Reboot the system and note the the user can login without their prior password and the system works normally.
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Open Terminal and login as root with: SU and password. Note that login is successful and works normally. Exit root and close terminal.
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Open Gnome Control Center and on the Details -> Users tab set the user to auto login. Close gcc. and note that the system continues to operate normally. allow the system to time out. Reactivate the system via an enter key. Note that the desktop reappears, but there is a black pop up in the upper left corner covering the Activities. There are two buttons on the pop up but neither of them seem to function. There is no apparent way to dismiss the pop up.
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Reboot the system: When the desk top appears the pop up will be gone until the next action that is judged to need authorization. At such a point the pop up will return as described above. Note that all actions that Gnome activates the pop up for are done correctly and are persistent over restarts as expected. The problem seems to be limited to the pop up that appears and can not be dismissed.
Actual results: Pop up that can not be dismissed appears.
Expected results: No pop up should appear.
Additional info:
Comment 1 pmkellly 2019-04-04 13:26:16 UTC
As of 04/04/2019, I checked this again with a fully updated F30 Workstation Beta and the bug is still present.
Comment 2 pmkellly 2019-04-22 18:49:09 UTC
As of the F30 Workstation Live Beta 0419 drop, this bug is still present. Also adding or removing software with the Gnome Software application also triggers this pop up as described above.
Comment 3 pmkellly 2019-05-06 17:11:07 UTC
This bug is still present in fully updated released F30. It also is present in Rawhide (F31) 0505 drop. The latest trigger for this bug it when using Media Writer, the pop-up says "Authentication is required to open SanDisk Cruzer Glide 3.0 (/dev/sdb) for benchmarking". The SoaS media that was being created was completed okay and it works fine. As with all the other triggers the only way to get rid of the pop-up is to reboot.
Comment 4 pmkellly 2019-05-22 13:09:13 UTC
This bog is still present in fully updated F30 and in Rawhide (F31) 0514 drop. A new trigger is running lshw
Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2019-05-30 22:07:42 UTC
So basically, the problem is that if you have an admin user with no password, when an action requiring admin privileges is attempted, you get this non-satisfiable auth popup?
Comment 6 pmkellly 2019-05-31 11:36:00 UTC
Yes, that is correct. The action is completed okay, but later after a screen timeout and reactivation and pop-up appears.